Update 21/1/14: Thanks for all of your entries, we’ve been overwhelmed by the quality and inventiveness of them. We’ve also been (literally) overwhelmed by the sheer number so please bear with us, this is one of the busiest times of the year for us and it will take some time to process. We will announce what’s happening in the next week or so but in the meantime we are unable to enter into correspondence about entries, either in the comments or via email. We’re not being rude, just pragmatic! Watch this space.

Clive
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Here, for your edification, are hundreds more of the posters you made as entries to our poster competition. This slideshow contains most of the posters you sent us by email.

We’ve lingered on each poster for under two seconds so we could get through them all in less than ten minutes: if you want a closer look, hit the pause button!

Clive is lying under a tsunami of paperwork, preparing for BETT next week, so he did not have time to extract images from about 60 posters we were sent by email that came in non-standard image formats. If yours was a ppt, doc, pdf or pub file (we had some other…curious…formats as well), I’m afraid we haven’t been able to include it in this slideshow: but if you sent us a poster by email before the deadline, you will be receiving a Pi even if you can’t see your poster here.

Everybody who entered gets a Raspberry Pi kit. Some of the posters were so imaginative and so well-executed that we’ll be choosing a favourite each and rewarding them with a little extra something: we’ll let you know which ones we select next week. We’ll be basing some tutorials and real-life projects on some of the ideas you sent us too. Thank you so much to everybody who entered; we’ve really enjoyed going through the posters!

No, the real engineers get Man’s Best Friend … it’s “designers” and posers masquerading as engineers who are slaves to cats. When was the last time you ever heard of a cat bringing his master the newspaper? OK, so the newspaper is shredded and soaked in slobber, but at least it’s inside the house. Dogs don’t sharpen their claws by jumping up on drapes, upholstery, and other expensive furnishings, they do it trying to pull you down the street while making traction on all manner of abrasive surfaces trying to chase cats. Oh, and “Dogs” that fit into carry-on bags aren’t dogs, they’re under-grown rats.

BTW, Mooncake really has to be a dog, because it would make absolutely no sense for Eben and Liz to have a cat given their world-class accomplishments in MIH (Makin’ It Happen), not to mention their insane work and travel schedules – not counting their Foundation activities that somehow consume another 24 hours in each day. What kind of cat would put up with that kind of selfish human behavior that doesn’t focus on the cat’s every need around-the-clock? :lol:

Hi, just to confirm that you got my son and daughter’s posters, titled “Raspberry All-In-One Spy Machine” and “The All-New Hot Chocolate Maker” (I think) as all I got was an automated reply- was there supposed to be some sort of confirmation?

The story is that the RPi was brought to market on a hunch. By running this competition the Foundation now has real customer feedback on which to base future decisions. A stroke of genius. Though possibly perceived by some as a bit of a laugh or even mundane I would suggest that a serious analysis of the entries is carried out.
The sooner a Hamster feeder project is rolled out the better. Technology that fills a perecived need is quickly adopted.
Perhaps the poster idea can be run again next year when the RPi is being used a bit more widely in shools with perhaps country/region specific competitions? The logistics may be huge but the benefits of knowing the customers is like gold dust.

Thanks I will check those out. My lad made a film a couple of years ago, I helped with the sound fx. My programming skills are around zero. He picks things up quicker than me so I am hoping someone can point us in the right direction to get us started.

You see, because you wrote that “most” entries are displayed in this video, those of us who don’t see our children’s entry are worried. (I sent entries from Catherine, Anna and James Brewer, am I don’t remember getting any sort of email acknowledgement. Just 1 Pi set would be fabulous). Mike

hi thanks for the competition. My son really enjoyed doing the poster and and inspire him to do similar things nicely like school hw.

I cant see his poster as it was sent as pdf file and just in panic a little. As i didnot receive any confirmation either.

Any idea when the rest of the poster will be displayed?
Also dont want to rush you sending pi but any rough guess when are we like to receive them? Its just i have booked a local rasberry jam workshop for my son and would have been nice taking the pi and get some lessons on it.

But no big deal. Really no rush. Take your time. Thanks again for this wonderful oppertunity you have given to our children. For a child geting a pi from parent is one thing and ‘winning’ a pi is a completely different thing…..

I think there are lots of people who cant see there entries by the looks of things. I sent one for my daughter and also posted one that my niece did. Neither have been shown and they can’t possibly both have got lost. I’m sure it will be fine. I also agree about the excitement and reward of getting one in the post. It’s something she’s really holding out for.

Thrilled to see my son’s entry at 3 minutes in (‘SleePi’ bed headboard, with sound and light alarm to wake his sister for school!), especially as it’s his 8th birthday tomorrow (I’ll let him know the good news then). Thank you Google, Lance, Clive, Liz and all concerned :-)

Hi there,
I sent my poster via email on 23/12/13. I didn’t get a reply of any sort.
I’m worrying that you didn’t receive my poster? It was called Eco friendly raspberry pi.
Please could you let me know for my peace of mind, thank you.

In an email they sent to my son, they said ‘you should receive it before the end of February’. He’s not received his yet (which is a shame, as his mum is taking him abroad for 3 weeks from Sunday), but as they’ve been very busy, I imagine they’re still in the process of shipping them out… there were 2,000 Pi’s going to schools and homes, after all!

The individual winners’ Pis are being sent out now and should all clear in the next two weeks. It was a massive logistics job (everything in the extra 3000+ kits needed to be assembled by hand, 3000 SD cards flashed by hand etc). So thanks for your patience, I hope you enjoy your Pi when it arrives! :)

Should everyone who entered have received a Pi by now?? My two kids have been waiting to receive theirs and their massive enthusiasm at seeing their posters up with all the brilliant ideas is fading a little, which is a shame as they had organised a little computer club with their friends.

Ours was literally delivered a few minutes ago by a nice man in a UPS van. By sheer coincidence, Barnaby was at home this afternoon to receive it and is now already upstairs working on his monster game.
So I think they are beginning to arrive. Hopefully yours will be there soon!
Thank you to the Raspberry Pi foundation, Google and the other sponsors.
Ian

My son’s poster features in this video (3:10), which he was hugely excited and proud about. However, we never received an email reply or a Raspberry Pi. Is it possible that there is still one for him en route?